Head of Mechanical Strategic Supply Chain

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

The Head of Mechanical Strategic Supply Chain is a Director leadership role responsible for architecting and executing the sourcing strategy across all mechanical commodities.

Responsibilities:

• Enterprise Supply Chain Vision & Strategy: Define and execute multi-year global commodity and sourcing strategies across direct and indirect domains to drive cost reduction, supply chain resilience, and technology acceleration.
• Team Leadership & Scale: Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team of commodity managers, strategic sourcing leads, and technical sourcing engineers across multiple global sites.
• Executive Supplier Relationship Management: Serve as the executive sponsor for Tier 1 suppliers, Contract Manufacturers, and critical technology partners.
• Cross-Functional Engineering Alignment: Partner directly with Mechanical Engineering, Materials Engineering, and Manufacturing from concept phase to drive DFM, Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing cost optimizations, raw material selection, and process standardizations.
• Commercial & Strategic Negotiations: Lead high-stakes negotiations for master service agreements, development agreements, long-term supply agreements, and complex statement of works.
• Supply Chain Resilience & Risk Mitigation: Proactively identify single-source dependencies, geopolitical vulnerabilities, and capacity constraints.
• Cost Architecture & TCO Modeling: Champion robust "should-cost" modeling, teardown analyses, and TCO evaluations to optimize value from concept through end-of-life.
• Executive Communication: Conduct regular operational and strategic reviews with C-suite and executive leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in mechanical & structural strategic sourcing, global commodity management, or supply chain leadership within complex hardware manufacturing environments.
• 5+ years of proven experience building, managing, and scaling high-performing procurement or supply chain teams.
• Demonstrated expertise negotiating enterprise-level agreements and managing diverse commodity portfolios.
• Proven track record of managing supplier lifecycles and negotiating complex multi-million-dollar commercial agreements.
• Deep understanding of New Product Introduction workflows and scaling from prototype to high-rate production.
• Ability to travel up to 25%-50% domestically and internationally as needed.
• Ability to relocate, if not already local to be onsite in Costa Mesa.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering or materials science.
• Previous experience in defense, aerospace, automotive, high tech, or related industry.
• Well-versed in TCO analysis and should costing.
• Strategic thinker, experienced putting together commodities strategy/roadmap with key engineering stakeholders.
• Proven leadership in driving and influencing other teams to a common goal.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security clearance.

Benefits: Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package.